Poems for the Moon & the Sun

8/17/2019 Poems for the Moon & the Sun

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P o e m s f o r t h e M o o n t h e S u n


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Poems for the Moon the Sun

Part 1: “The Moon”

Nighttime Stage Left 1 Born Stubborn Me 2

The Swan 3

Part 2: “Three Bays”

Half-Moon Bay 4

Bora Bora Bay 5 Prudhoe Bay 6

Part 3: “Three Hours”

Swell 7 Natural Observation 8

The Perennial Us 9

Part 4: “The Sun”

Wedding Day 10

England / Moving Day 11 Daytime Stage Right 12


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Part 1

“The Moon”


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Nighttime Stage Right

Night, come covered in something nice An orange moon peaking in and out

Bonfires bold and bright

Starry scarf pulled tight,Come, come, my long awaited Night

Crumble on top of my rooftopOr awkwardly land on the lensOf my Canon Camera, I inviteThe Cosmos over for mid-darkDrinks

This bar will never ever close

Your tight belt keeps in the gravityBut if you eat another dying sunThe buttons on your pitch-black slacksWill pop – an expanding waistline, blubberWell over the Earth

But there is something else I must assert

If you ever become drunk And need a place to sleepFeel free to crash in myBackyard, I will warm yourMilk, I will keep the Daytime Away, that bastard – if I everHear you scream, awake or Asleep, I’ll come running,Batting away intruders, or

Easing away night-terrors,The awful things you mustDream about


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Born Stubborn Me

We live in an overpopulated acreage A suffocating plane jammed betweenTwo spheres

The SUN& The MOON

They ramble on and on and on and on and on and on

They shoot the tides at each other. Bonfires and beach days hurdled towards the wallSMASH

Cracking them into a billion,Billion pieces, events and present

Tense now dust twinkling withoutConversation:

The STARS

Sunlight, moonlight, florescent light – all are forms of light,Only the diminishment of darkness allows us to categorize And classify

Spatial summation, all of this coming together for us

To love, to propose, to marry – the different backdropsRolling carts and thousands of forces pushing and pulling

Pushing and pulling and pushing and pulling

A pulley system hinged on the back of the cosmosRaising and lowering

Raising and lowering and raising and lowering

A papier-mâché set of spheres:The Moon, the Sun

Prickly abnormality: the Stars

All competing with each other, each filling the cavity left by the other, everything andanything, all together


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The Swan

Her swan face, a grinning coaxThe feathers all glued on andStaying

Her wings are made of mangledCoat hangers and pages ofOld textbooks, the ones sheMust have had for her classesLast semester

A living sketch of awkwardnessHer distinctive facial featuresMake her weird and new to all

Eyes, I see her always – feetSprung up on lecture hall chairsSometimes we would shoot atEach other with a half-scaredStare

I can feel the unknown texture of her handsGroping the unknown texture of my heartI imagine if she had been a texture herselfIt would be similar to an empty oil drum

No

She see’s meWriting

The rounded corners of her eye start toShape into something sharp, they turn red, A red hexagon

I spit up

A slight cough covered by my hand

She looks back with a completed lookWings outstretched and fluttering manically


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Part 2“Three Bays”


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Half-Moon Bay

Perched upon costal bedrockI lapse into the submergence

Of ocean-voice

Jubilation coexists with the waves

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Bora Bora Bay

Spider web strung out on exotic plantsDraping over their oversized petals, canopying the moonlight

The spiders are far off, burrowing inside of nature’s wombCrawling all over its walls and hatching their babies on distant planets

With our hands cupped we can see through the cracks in these leavesThe little tiny holes eaten by caterpillars and other unbelievable things A fleshed-meshed telescope, how it allows us to see the Moon, the Sun And a few meteorites

Objects in space – an unending tumbleOur hands, still cupped, can see right to the

End of infinity, the rounding edges

All of this is available to us from our hammockUnderneath the spider web, our revolving window


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Prudhoe Bay

Night sky exterminated by candle, you leave this roomReturning to the hoots of Owls, escape out of the chimney

Leave nothing but soot

Beyond midnight, darkness maimedI cannot imagine anything darker thanPrudhoe Bay

The expanse of stars, the receding hairlineOf the universe’s true mane

I do not wait for Day

It’s troubling to me, Night SkyI worry about it right before bedtimeYour inevitable death – for in three hours

The blossom of sunshine


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Part 3:

“Three Hours”


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Swell

A jumbled attempt at wordsPours out of a reamed mouth

A vast swell

LIMITLESS – the line ofSprawled wings, a murder ofCrows zipping throughPower lines

My bedroom window

One crow breaks off

His eyes and mind setOn a rodent splatteredOn the side of the road

Porcelain beaks,Whistling

An oncoming clamor for stinking fleshThe fevered frenzy of feeding time


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Natural Observation

OBSERVE

The poet and a pallet of pointless

Observations, slight plays performedInstead of conversation

Soft sweet talk to swoon the Universe

He steps up to the mic A single string of Christmas lightsStrung up along The Ship’s stageTo differentiae his black clothes fromThe black backdrop

Observe

The poet in his queen, a single bodySloppily spiraled, bored and bare,Enjoying the cold air

From his ceiling fan


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The Perennial Us

The perennial us,High substance andSupporters of blissful

Order

Finite are mostBut our longevity is unrivaledEven by the soul of our creator

Perennial God, turn the roses’ pedals into platesFeeding the hungry and less fortunate with storiesOf us

All are lost in the chaotic shuffling of futuresThis flesh full of body and her flesh full ofBeauty flash from a dark, stupid cave

The perennial rose, the distance it has unfurledStrife savvy stem strayed on an abrupt wind

EarthBounded byThe silence of

Everything outsideOf it’s borders, whatCould even be out there?Besides dark? Besides absence?Six month of Night follow six monthsOf light, travelling round and round andRound and round and round and round againCrystalloid treadmill, sideways and circular keepingEverything in blissful order – we’re okay, I’ll tie you upBound your legs

Perianal rose, all I want is something to love, to holdIf a rose is a rose is a rose, then what is the truth in all I have been told?


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Part 4:“The Sun”


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Wedding Day

We’re performing at the theatreSwinging on piano chordsSwimming in fishbowls

All along they said sentences should be songs Acting like we’re acting that we don’t want to actNo more

Two bodies meshed together by puppeteersChewing gum in bed, cutting the cake in equalShares

Skipping down, hand in hand

Working on proper stanceChoreographing the danceTomorrow is opening nightThe big show

Our friends are all coming out to see us go Jammed packed in taxicabs

Be mindful of the overflow

It’s getting closer and closerIt’s getting closer and closer


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England / Moving Day

The miles are increasingSecond by second, you’reNo longer all that close to

Me

The Clock must have ADHD or somethingIt cant fucking sit still, it’s silly, it’s hands Are hyperactive and spinning

If it had a smile it would smile atEach loss of year and at each new mile

D U M B

A sad face drawn on a birthday party balloonIt’s another addition to the frowning balloonsThat have come before, lost now, given to theUniverse, its fetish for birthday party memorabiliaIs important to consider

October is getting nearer And you are getting fartherOr is it that you’re getting closer

Who knows?

Not me!

Oceans are packed into cardboard boxes And a dusty, orangey sky acts as foam soThe FedEx men cant crush it – I’m shippingOff, emotionally, physically


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Daytime Stage Right

Clay nectar caked with yellow acrylic – two-seated cycle, picnic basket on the frontFoolish butterfly, flutter flutter flutter on, you can eat it all once it’s dry

Hello beautiful girl, what does your subconscious spring towards?Do you have the urge to bounce on trampolines?Touching the clouds and pulling down the October sky wallpaper Just to see what’s behind. Will it be God sitting on his magic carpet?

Dreams ooze over into anatomyMy countless titles for poetryBe my thick red bloodBe my pizzazz


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Poems for the Moon the Sun

Poems for the Moon & the Sun

Was written in the fall of 2011

“The Perennial Us” originally titled “Perennial Rose”“The Swan” originally titled “Swan Suit”


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Adjectives lunar selenicOrbital characteristicsPerigee 362600 km(356400–370400 km)

Apogee 405400 km(404000–406700 km)Semi-major axis 384399km (0.00257 AU)[1]Eccentricity 0.0549 [1]Orbital period 27.321582 d(27 d 7 h 43.1 min[1])Synodic period 29.530589 d(29 d 12 h 44 min 2.9 s)

Average orbital speed1.022 km/s Inclination5.145° to the ecliptic[2][a]

Longitude of ascendingnode regressing by onerevolution in 18.6 years

Argument of perigeeprogressing by onerevolution in 8.85 yearsSatellite of Earth Physicalcharacteristics Meanradius 1737.10 km (0.273Earths)[1][3][4]Equatorial radius 1738.14km (0.273 Earths)[3] Polar

radius 1735.97 km (0.273Earths)[3] Flattening0.00125 Circumference10921 km (equatorial)Surface area 3.793×107km2 (0.074 Earths)

Volume 2.1958×1010 km3(0.020 Earths) Mass7.3477×1022 kg (0.012300Earths[1]) Mean density3.3464 g/cm3[1] 0.606 × Earth Surface gravity

1.622 m/s2 (0.1654 g)Moment of inertia factor0.3929±0.0009[5] Escapevelocity 2.38 km/s Siderealrotation period 27.321582d (synchronous)Equatorial rotationvelocity 4.627 m/s Axial


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tilt 1.5424° to ecliptic6.687° to orbit plane[2]

Albedo 0.136[6] Surfacetemp. min mean maxEquator 100 K 220 K 390K 85°N [7] 70 K 130 K 230

K Apparent magnitude!2.5 to !12.9[b] !12.74(mean full moon)[3]

Angular diameter 29.3 to34.1 arcminutes[3][c]

Mean distance from Earth1.496 ×108 km 8 min 19 s atlight speed Visual

brightness (V) !26.74[1] Absolute magnitude4.83[1] Spectralclassification G2V

Metallicity Z = 0.0122[2] Angular size 31.6–32.7′[3] Adjectives Solar Orbitalcharacteristics Meandistance from Milky Way

core " 2.7×1017 km 27200light-years Galacticperiod (2.25–2.50)×108 a

Velocity " 220 km/s (orbitaround the center of the

Milky Way) " 20 km/s(relative to average

velocity of other stars instellar neighborhood) " 370 km/s[4] (relative tothe cosmic microwavebackground) Physicalcharacteristics Equatorialradius 696342±65 km[5]109 × Earth[6] Equatorialcircumference 4.379×106km[6] 109 × Earth[6]

Flattening 9×10!6 Surfacearea 6.09×1012 km2[6]

12000 × Earth[6] Volume1.41×1018 km3[6] 1300000× Earth Mass(1.98855±0.00025)×1030kg[1] 333000 × Earth[1]

Average density 1.408g/cm3[1][6][7] 0.255 × Earth[1][6] Center


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density (modeled) 162.2g/cm3[1] 12.4 × EarthEquatorial surface gravity274.0 m/s2[1] 27.94 g27542.29 cgs 28 × Earth[6]Escape velocity (from the

surface) 617.7 km/s[6] 55 × Earth[6] TemperatureCenter (modeled):1.57×107 K[1]Photosphere (effective):

5778 K[1] Corona: " 5×106K Luminosity (Lsol)

3.846 ×1026 W[1] "

3.75×1028 lm " 98 lm/Wefficacy Mean radiance(Isol) 2.009×107

W·m!2·sr!1 Age "4.6

billion years[8][9]

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